Licking, Knox counties receive grant to help youth in crisis

Funds will be used to create mobile treatment team

6:40 AM,
Aug. 20, 2013

Written by

Bethany Bruner
Advocate Reporter

More than $170,000 in state grant money will be used to help create a mobile treatment team for youth in Licking and Knox counties between the ages of 8 and 24 who are in crisis.

The Licking County Board of Developmental Disabilities, Knox County Board of Disabilities, Behavioral Health Care Partners of Central Ohio, Pathways of Central Ohio, Mental Health and Recovery for Licking and Knox Counties and the Village Network applied for the grant along with 37 other entities across the state. The local grant was one of seven proposals chosen to receive funds statewide.